Aspirant Paramount Chief reunites Bendugu residents
October 9, 2018 By Mohamed Massaquoi Colonel Jalloh making statement Aspirant for the position of Paramount Chief in the Sambia Bendugu Chiefdom, Tonkolili district, northern Sierra Leone, has called...
View ArticleUBA introduces social media banking
October 9, 2018 United Bank for Africa customers can now access their UBA accounts via Facebook Messenger and make cash transfers, check financial statement, purchase airtime, free of charge. Last...
View ArticleLack of evidence: Court discharges President Bio’s impersonators
October 9, 2018 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Principal Magistrate of Freetown Magistrates’ Court No.1, Mr. Santigie Ibrahim Sorie Bangura, yesterday discharged three accused persons who were in his court...
View ArticleCuban Embassy Celebrates 50th SALCUBA Anniversary
October 9, 2018 By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma First President of SALCUBA Jere W. Thomas making a statement whilst Cuba charge’ de affairs Leonel Lazo Montalvo looks on The Cuban Embassy in Sierra Leone...
View ArticleMother granted Le30m bail for child cruelty
October 9, 2018 By Yusufu S. Bangura One Margret Kabia, 35, a businesswoman, was yesterday granted bail by Magistrate Abdul Sheriff, presiding at the Freetown Magistrates’ Court No.7, for alleged child...
View ArticleSolidaridad to boost cocoa, palm oil production
October 9, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie A nongovernmental organisation, Solidaridad, is currently implementing two projects aimed at improving the production of cocoa and palm oil in Sierra Leone. The...
View ArticleTop West African musicians to light up Freetown
October 9, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie KME CEO: The KABAKA Top and popular musicians in the sub-region are bracing themselves to light up the first ever ECOWAS musical festival (ECOFEST), scheduled to...
View ArticleHajj Gate: Witness says 1st accused Sheka Sahid Kamara deposited Le300m into...
October 10, 2018 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Senior Investigating Officer at the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Joseph. B. Noah has stated in court that the first accused deposited Le300 million Leones...
View ArticleInformation Minister says Africa must do more to empower women
October 10, 2018 Information Minister Mohamed Rahman Swarray Information and Communications Minister, Mohamed Rahman Swarray says that African governments must do more to empower women if they are...
View ArticleStandards Bureau chief warns against sacrifice of quality
October 10, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Professor Thomas B.R. Yormah Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau has warned the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Sierra Leone Local Content...
View ArticleFive AMEU academic staff to pursue PHD at USL
October 10, 2018 By Ishmael Sallieu Koroma Five Staff from the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU) in Liberia have been enrolled into the University of Sierra Leone (USL) to pursue Doctor of...
View ArticleMan, 42, remanded for alleged murder
October 10, 2018 By Yusufu S. Bangura Foday Jusu Yambasu, 42, a stone miner, was yesterday remanded at the male correctional centre in Freetown pending his alleged murder trial. Prosecutor, Assistant...
View ArticleHealth Ministry sympathises with Spur Road accident victims
October 10, 2018 By PRO Unit – MOHS Dr. Wurie paid a visit to the accident victims Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr. Alpha Tejan Wurie, his deputy and top ministry officials have visited and...
View ArticlePresident Bio Consoles, Mourns with Families of Military Officers Killed in...
October 10, 2018 President Julius Maada Bio has joined families and well-wishers to mourn the death of eight military officers and their children killed in a gruesome road accident in Freetown last...
View ArticleEcobank Teller: 1st accused deposited Le300m Hajj money into private joint...
October 11, 2018 By Hassan Gbassay Koroma Margaret Michaela Goba, a teller at Ecobank Sierra Leone, yesterday testified in the on-going 2017 hajj corruption trial involving officials of the former...
View ArticleAs Sierra Leone observes World Mental Health Day…
October 11, 2018 By Ibrahim Tarawallie CEO and founder of AMHHR, Ms. Kona Seibure Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Advocacy for Mental Health and Human Rights (AMHHR) has lamented that there was...
View ArticlePresident Bio inaugurates new members of University Court at Fourah Bay College
October 11, 2018 President Bio has inaugurated the new University Court at FBC President Julius Maada Bio has inaugurated new members nominated to the University Court of Sierra Leone at a brief...
View ArticleMan, 32, remanded for alleged murder
October 11, 2018 By Yusufu S. Bangura Ansu Fofanah, 32, was yesterday remanded at the male correctional centre in Freetown by Magistrate Abdul Sheriff, presiding at the Freetown Magistrates’ Court...
View ArticleOp-ed: The importance of the International Day of the Girl Child for Sierra...
October 11, 2018 Photo credited to UNICEF Since 2012, 11 October has been marked as the International Day of the Girl, a day designated to draw global attention to the challenges that girls face and...
View ArticleConvict to spend 18 months imprisonment for possessing pistol
October 11, 2018 By Yusufu S. Bangura Magistrate Abdul Sheriff, presiding at the Siaka Stevens Street Magistrates’ Court No.7, Tuesday, 9th October, sentenced one Michael...
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